Toy telephone



March 17, 1925. 1,530,262

W. N. HILL TOY TELEPHONE Filed April 15 1924 Patented Mar. '17, 1925.

UNITED sures:

PATENT OFFICE.

WYMAN HILL, or EAS HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR To THE N. N. HILL BRASS Co., or EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT.

TOY TELEPHONE.

Application filed April 15, 1924. Serial No.;'706,624.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WYMAN N. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Hampton, in the county of -M-iddlesex and State. of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Telephones; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying I obvious, as lndicated In Fig. 5 of the drawdrawings, and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in I Fig. 1 a front view of a toy telephone constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a plan view of the same.

Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig.2.

Fig. 4 a perspective view of the bell-plate detached.

Fig. 5 a, perspective view of a modified form of bell-plate.

This invention relates to an improvement in toy telephones and particularly to toy telephones of the desk type. In the usual construction of toys of this character, a bell is mounted on the instrument and providedwith a lever by; which the bell is sounded, but this necessitates the operation of a lever. The object of this invention is to provide'a toy telephone with a bell which will be sounded by merely shaking the instrument, 'and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims. I I

In carrying out my invention, I employ a standard 10, preferably of wood, mounted upon a base 11 and havingaflixed to itsvupper end the simulation of a transmitter 12. Mounted at one side of the standard is a receiver-hook 13' to, support the simulation of P a receiver 14, which is connected by a cord 15 with the base 11. The rece1verhook'1s mounted 111 place by driving ts shank 16 111- to a hole formed for it in one side of the standard 10. At the back of the standard there isa hole to receive the shankv 17 of a flat plate 18, the shank being provided with a boss 19 to assist in holding the plate in a horizontal position. Mounted on the plate are two-posts 20 supporting gongs 21 and 22, the lower ends of the posts being upset in the plate and the upper ends in the gongs, and within thegongs are loose strikers 23 and 24, which are metal balls, so that, when the instrument is shaken, the balls will strike the gongs and produce a ringing sound.

, W'hileI prefer to employ two gongs, it is and a plate mounted on one side thereof at a right angle thereto, a post vertically mounted on said plate, a gong mounted on the up per end of said post, with its edge close to the surface of the plate, and aloose striker enclosed between'the gong and plate.

2. .A toy telephone, comprising a standard, a plate formed on one side with a stem inserted into the said standard in a plane at right angles thereto, a post vertically mounted on said plate in a plane parallel with said. standard, a gong secured to the upper end of-said post, with its edge close to thesurface of the plate, and a loose striker enclosed between said gong and plate.

3. A toy telephone, comprising a standard, a plate formedwith a shank on one side,

provided witha bossand entered into the said standardin a plane at right angles thereto, two posts mounted on said plate in planes parallel with the plane of the said support, a. gong mounted on each of saidv osts, with their edges close to the surface of the plate, and a striker enclosed between each of said gongs and the plate.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. lVYMAN N. HILL. Witnesses;

NOR AN N. HILL, NORMAN W. HILL. 

